Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920

by Allan H. Spear

Book Overview

Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226768570
• ISBN13: 9780226768571
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

tragic racial drama

black chicago starts off w/ a 17year old negro boy who gets drowned and stoned by angry whites because he accidentally floated across the unmarked barrier that separated the white and negro sectors of the beach. this book talks about the boundaries regulating the behavior of different races being challenged in the city of Chicago in the years between 1890 and 1920. also how the changes affect the basic institutions of this city,including education, recreation, business, and politics, and etc. stories are so tragic and you will find out why in this book. you will be surprised by what happened. i liked this book and i think it is a great book to find out a real racial conflict.